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noun • United States rock singer who was one of the first to popularize rock'n'roll music (1925-1981) • United States writer and Afro-American who wrote a fictionalized account of tracing his family roots back to Africa (1921-1992) | ||||
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noun • United States writer and Afro-American who wrote a fictionalized account of tracing his family roots back to Africa (1921-1992) | ||||
| 23% | 9 | An avid writer or letter-writer | ||
noun • informal terms for journalists • a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read | ||||
Roots Writer
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